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peaceful struggles. If, therefore, physiology can aid in the development 
. of athletics as a science and an art, I think it will deserve well of man- 
kind. As in all these things, however, the reward will be reciprocal. 
Obviously in the data of athletic records we have a store of information 
available for physiological study. Apart from its usefulness, however, 
I would urge that the study is amusing. Most people are interested, 
at any rate in England and America, in some type of sport. If they can be 
made to find it more interesting, as I have found it, by a scientific con- 
templation of the things which every sportsman knows, then that extra 
interest is its own defence. 
